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A student at an east Ottawa high school says officials have been too slow to respond to concerns about doors missing from some boys’ bathroom stalls, raising privacy concerns among the student body. “I want the school to be held accountable for it,” said the Grade 12 Gloucester High school …

Haweya Farah’s family is in a dispute with her 10-year-old brother’s Ottawa-area school and its school board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO).  The fifth grader has been in a specialized-language program without the consent of his parents, Farah said. Often families like Farah’s don’t know where …

With students back in school this week, Jonathan Weal is also back in the driver’s seat. He’s a school bus operator with Southland Transportation, picking up and dropping off about two dozen students from kindergarten to Grade 12 across southwest Calgary. It’s a job he loves, but he says it hasn’t …

Hundreds in Victoria attended events on Monday to commemorate a century since Chinese students staged a walkout and a school boycott against segregation. The commemorative walk, speeches and lunch marked 100 years since the start of a student strike against a school district policy separating Chinese and white students that was …

People living in Kelowna, B.C., and surrounding communities are bracing for disruption to bus service, with public transit workers in a legal position to strike shortly after noon on Thursday. That’s when members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1722 — which represents Kelowna Regional Transit operators, office staff and maintenance …

As the countdown to the first day of school begins, post-secondary institutions in Canada are getting ready to host their first fully in-person orientation week for incoming students — a rite of passage that was postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Maddie Fines, a first-year student at …

School orientation begins at SAIT Polytechnic, Bow Valley College and the University of Calgary next week, but many students set to study in Calgary are still waiting to secure housing for the fall semester. The president of the University of Calgary Students’ Union says there were about 500 students still on the wait-list. …

As more international students arrive in the Greater Toronto Area for school in September, lines outside of Service Canada offices are wrapping around buildings with wait times of up to four hours for some.  Earlier this summer, a backlog in passport processing times was plaguing Service Canada locations across the province. …

Early this week, Western University in London, Ont., announced an updated vaccine requirement — mandating a primary series of shots plus one booster for everyone returning to campus — along with resuming masking indoors for the fall. The news garnered an immediate reaction from students. Ethan Gardner, president of Western’s …

Wearing a jerk vest and ready to be pulled through the air on ropes for a stunts course, Dan McMaster eagerly volunteers to go first. They’ve been the first to volunteer for every class exercise over the past three months. “I wanted to get everything that I could out of it. Whatever …